DRNS - Naming Schemes for Distributed
Storage
While I know that there might be many people who'd disagree
with me, I think it is very important in a distributed
storage space to have some sort of structured equivalent to
DNS. My working title for this is DRNS (Distributed Rights
Naming System).
This could be non storage protocol specific, so it might
work on both MojoNation and FreeNet. Here are some of the
ideas I have as requirements:

It should be able to be plugged in to various storage
schemes.

It should be usable through existing browsers. (You
should be able to append the name to an Existing URL for an
freenet 2 web gateway for example.)

Names should be cryptographically unrevokable if
wished. This is to avoid many of the disputes seen in the
world of domain names right now.

It should support anonymous ownership. Otherwise why
would you be using Freenet in the first place.

It should be hierarchical of nature, where each level
of the hierarchy only controls issuance for the level
directly below. Lets say that some one owned
the /geovillages/ domain. They can control and set rules
for issueing direct subdomains from their domain. But once
they domain /geovillages/xxxsites/ domain had been issued
by them, they can not control that domain or what goes on
in that domain.

On creation a domain can be set to be expireable. This
expiration will be a set time or date and can not be
changed once it's been created. When expired a domain can
be reissued with a new expiration.

Because of the hierarchical nature of the system. Given
a document with a given name, you can verify that it and
each parent domain above it is signed by the above domain.

One way to do this would be to use a hierarchy of PGP keys.
Each domain would be described in a simple XML file, that
was signed by the domain signer above.

This is the file that you get if you would get if you
searched the underlying protocol for a file with the
name "/neu". Any subdomains under "/neu" would consist of
files similar to above, but signed by the key specified in
the above owner tag.

The freenet of mojonation server would verify when a new
document comes in, if it's allowed to be posted using the
given name. Clients reading the file would also do a check
for validity.

DRNS could be part of a layer of protocols to enable
distributed, anonymous, p2p, commerce webs (how many more
buzzwords can I put in here;). Higher level application
specific protocols, could enable transactions and
versioning ontop of this naming system and it's underlying
storage protocols.